"South Asia struggles with floods" - BBC

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"Millions of people have been displaced by severe flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
More than 12 million are displaced or marooned in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, officials say.
A third of neighbouring Bangladesh is inundated, with nearly 40 people killed and some five million affected by the floods, the authorities say.
Nepal's government says that 86 people have died in the torrential rainfall."

BBC, 2 August 2007. Here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6927389.stm

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1. In pictures: Floods in South Asia (BBC)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6927778.stm

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2. AP: Rains compound India's monsoon misery

AP, 5 August 2007. Here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SOUTH_ASIA_MONSOON_FLOODS?SITE=TNMEM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

"BARABANKI, India (AP) -- Torrential rains overnight compounded the misery of 2 million marooned Indian villagers, killing another 11 people and raising the death toll from house collapses and floods in South Asia to 240, officials said Sunday.

Helicopters have dropped food to hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. The Indian army helped civil authorities mount relief and rescue operations for those living since last week on highways, railroad tracks and high river embankments in northern India's Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states.

At least 240 people have been killed in India and neighboring Bangladesh, and 19 million driven from their homes in recent days."
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